Episode 33: Arrival

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team breaks down the difference between the Arrival script and the short story, how the themes of communication and choice are woven throughout, and the power of film as its own language.

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Show Notes

LFTS video on Arrival: https://youtu.be/QTxvzkwVsQE

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.8	Today we are talking about Arrival, the 2016 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by
0:14.2	Eric Heiserer based on The Story of Your Life by Ted Chang.
0:17.6	We are with the lessons from the screenplay team, Trisha Arandt.
0:20.6	Hello, everyone.
0:21.5	Brian Bittner.
0:22.3	Hello.
0:22.8	And Alex Cayettos.
0:24.2	Hi.
0:25.0	So, Arrival is a movie.
0:27.5	And so I...
0:28.5	Correct.
0:29.7	The end.
0:30.4	The end.
0:31.1	I went back and I watched the video that I made on Arrival.
0:34.5	And it's kind of, in my head head a very pivotal video and the history of
0:39.1	lessons from the screenplay. Like I think it was, it's a video number 17, which at the time felt like,
0:44.6	I've been doing this for forever. And there was just something about this video. Like, I wanted to
0:48.8	make it special. And I'd reached out to Eric Heiserer on Facebook randomly, just sent him a message and he actually
0:55.5	responded and we were very close to getting him to come and be interviewed and be part of the
1:01.0	video. But it ended up not happening. But it was a moment where I felt like the channel had kind
1:06.9	of like grown and matured such that I felt comfortable reaching out to a screenwriter.
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